Sappho quotes

Ancient Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing, 610-580 BC

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“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”